[tor-relays] Pool of IP Addresses

[amytain]

So I could possibly use a firewall/ip-asa rule to go through the ips and just specify one in the torrc then


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On Saturday, May 4, 2019 9:47 PM, Iain Learmonth <irl at torproject.org> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On 04/05/2019 22:17, amytain wrote:
>
> > Is it possible to have a pool of ip addresses as the outbound ip
> > addresses instead of just one?
>
> Not as I understand it from reading the torrc manual page, although you
> might be able to implement something like this through NAT rules on your
> firewall.
>
> You can advertise multiple OR ports for incoming connections (I think)
> but if you advertise too many your server descriptor will become too
> large (it contains all your OR port addresses) and will not be accepted.
> Every time your addresses change in server descriptors it resets a bunch
> of timers, and the directory authorities see you as less "stable", so
> it's best to not make regular changes there.
>
> Thanks,
> Iain.
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